Fear Quotes

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Max Ehrmann

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Author Unknown

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Thomas Merton

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Anthony Robbins

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao - Tzu

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

He who fears something gives it power over him.

Moorish Prove

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

John Donne

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

Hugh Prathe

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Thomas Paine

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow?

Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

Author Unknown

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

There is only one universal passion fear.

George Bernard Shaw

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860